Originally intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in the late 19th century by John Pemberton, Coca-Cola was bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coke to its dominance of the world soft-drink market throughout the 20th century.

Candler County, was named in 1914 for Allen D. Candler in appreciation for his passion and diligence in compiling and editing nearly thirty volumes of the State's historical records from the Colonial, Revolutionary and Confederate periods.

His land was later purchased by Walter Candler.

His land was later purchased by Walter Candler.

The result was an early version of Coca-Cola, although the coca ingredient ( cocaine ) was the main active ingredient when the company was acquired by Asa Candler.

Nothing suitable was available in Washington in 1936, so the Social Security Board selected the Candler Building on Baltimore's harbor as a temporary location.

As part of the agreement, the property was renamed Candler Field after its former owner, Coca-Cola tycoon and former Atlanta mayor Asa Candler.

The first flight into Candler Field was on September 15, 1926, a Florida Airways mail plane flying from Jacksonville, Florida.

Candler Field's first control tower was opened March 1939.

In 1946 Candler Field was renamed Atlanta Municipal Airport and by 1948, more than one million passengers passed through a war surplus hangar that served as a terminal building.

However, the church was responsible for founding four of the South's top divinity schools: Vanderbilt Divinity School, Duke Divinity School, Candler School of Theology at Emory University and Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University.

From 1983 to 1993, Moltmann was the Robert W. Woodruff Distinguished Visiting Professor of Systematic Theology at Candler School of Theology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

In 1887, the Coca-Cola Company was incorporated in Atlanta with Asa Candler as one of the partners.

By 1895 Candler announced to shareholders that Coca-Cola was served in every state in the United States.

* The Atlanta Biltmore Hotel, designed by Schultze & Weaver, opened in Atlanta, Georgia in 1924 at a cost of $ 6 million, it was organized by Coca-Cola heir William Candler, Holland Ball Judkins, and Bowman.

Dr. John Candler Cobb, Professor of Preventive Medicine at the University of Colorado Medical Center, testified that the most significant danger of radioactive contamination came from the 1967 incident in which oil barrels containing plutonium leaked of oil into sand under the barrels, which was then blown by strong winds as far away as Denver.

Asa Griggs Candler ( December 30, 1851 – March 12, 1929 ) was an American business tycoon who made his fortune selling Coca-Cola.

Candler Field, the site of the present-day Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, was named after him, as is Candler Park in Atlanta.

Candler was born in Rome, Georgia.

In 1899, Methodist Bishop Warren Candler's brother Asa Candler was elected to Emory's Board of Trustees and was a generous patron of the university.

The following important figures were also born in Villa Rica: Coca-cola business tycoon and former mayor of Atlanta Asa Griggs Candler ; former Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and tenth president of Emory University Warren Akin Candler ; former baseball star Fred " Dixie " Walker ; former University of Georgia offensive tackle Ken Shackleford ; and former NFL punter Herman " Thunderfoot " Weaver.

Work did not begin until 1905, and in 1908 the development company was sold to Asa Candler, president of the Coca Cola Company and future mayor of Atlanta, who built a mansion at 1428 Ponce de Leon Avenue.

Coca-Cola founders Asa G. Candler and Dr. John S. Pemberton are seen together at Asa G. Candler & Co. pharmacy, 47 Peachtree St., Atlanta in the only extant albumen photograph from 1888.

Williamson is home to The Candler Field Museum, established to recreate the old Atlanta airport as it existed in the 1920s and 1930s.

In October 1940, the U. S. government declared it a military airfield and the United States Army Air Force operated Atlanta Army Airfield jointly with Candler Field.

Much smaller and poorer were Randolph-Macon College in Virginia, with its two affiliated fitting-schools and Woman's College ; Emory College, in Atlanta ( with Candler family money far in the future ); Emory & Henry, in Southwest Virginia ; Wofford, with its two fitting-schools, in South Carolina ; Trinity, in North Carolina — soon to be endowed by the Duke family and change its name ; Central, in Missouri ; Southern, in Alabama ; Southwestern, in Texas ; Wesleyan, in Kentucky ; Millsaps, in Mississippi ; Centenary, in Louisiana ; Hendrix, in Arkansas ; and Pacific, in California.

He is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

He is the Charles Howard Candler professor of Primate Behavior in the Emory University psychology department in Atlanta, Georgia, and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center and author of numerous books including Chimpanzee Politics and Our Inner Ape.

In 1922 he donated over of his Druid Hills holdings to the City of Atlanta for what became Candler Park.

Saliers was born in New Haven, Connecticut to Don and Jane Saliers and grew up in Decatur, Georgia ( in metro Atlanta ), where her father was a professor at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University.

It was established in the early 1900s as the commercial district for the adjacent Inman Park and Candler Park neighborhoods, but has since become famous for the alternative culture it brings to Atlanta.

Little Five Points is surrounded by the Inman Park, Edgewood, Candler Park and Poncey-Highland neighborhoods of Atlanta.

Candler mansion ( built 1916 ) at 1500 Ponce de Leon Avenue in Druid Hills

In 1891, Asa Candler became the sole proprietor of Coca-Cola after purchasing the rights to the business.

Samuel Candler Dobbs, sales manager of Coca-Cola and later its president, took up the cause of truth in advertising in the wake of those judgements.

Woodruff was born in Columbus, Georgia, the son of Ernest Woodruff, an Atlanta businessman who, among other things, was leader of the group of investors who bought The Coca-Cola Company from Asa Griggs Candler in 1919.

After the turn of the 20th century, Emory College received a generous monetary and land grant from Asa Griggs Candler, president of The Coca-Cola Company, and moved its operations to Druid Hills, closer to Atlanta.

Atlanta was chosen as the home of new Emory University after Asa Griggs Candler, president of The Coca-Cola Company, deeded the university 65 acres of land in Druid Hills, six miles from the city's downtown, and contributed $ 1 million to the school's endownment.

Samuel Candler Dobbs was president and chairman of The Coca-Cola Company, from 1919 to 1922.

He was the son of Harris Henry Dobbs, and cousin of Asa Griggs Candler, founder of The Coca-Cola Company.

With Candler and Walker soon at odds with Charley Pemberton, his father announced that it was the rights to the Coca-Cola name but not the formula that he had conveyed to the son.

Candler decided by 1894 to focus on the name and formula, and abandoned the troubled corporation, starting, without its other principals, a new corporation, The Coca-Cola Company.

John Thomas Lupton ( 1862 – 1933 ) was an American lawyer, industrialist and philanthropist who along with Benjamin Thomas and Joseph Whitehead, obtained exclusive rights from Asa Candler to bottle and sell Coca-Cola.

Moreover, Pemberton sold the rights to manufacture Coca-Cola a second time that year, to Asa Candler.

It is named after Coca-Cola magnate Asa Griggs Candler, who donated this land to the city in 1922.

As deliberations to choose the site were under way, Asa Candler ( owner at the time of Coca-Cola ) donated $ 1 million to make the transformation of Emory College into Emory University possible in 1915.